Search: Darwin, C. R. in author 
1880-1889 in date 
Cambridge University Library in repository 
Sorted by:

Showing 6180 of 300 items

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Cornelis Leendert van der Burg
Date:
[after 15 July 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 107v
Summary:

Thanks for the honour of election.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
16 July [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 86
Summary:

Is honoured by RLT’s announcement, and offers a contribution to the Birmingham scientific fund.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[19 July 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 161
Summary:

Writes about gravel deposits [at Southampton] and sends a James Geikie letter [12655?] on the subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Murdoch (James) Geikie
Date:
19 July 1880
Source of text:
DAR 144: 332
Summary:

Gives permission to use letter [10676].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
28 July [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 95
Summary:

Advises GHD on what to write if he is asked for a reference for Alfred Wrigley.

Thanks GHD for information about trypsin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
28 July [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 65
Summary:

Thanks FD for criticisms [of Movement in plants]. J. D. Hooker was interested in the observations of movement in Desmodium.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow
Date:
4 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 53
Summary:

Sends a statement of the assets of the Down Friendly Society. Asks for advice on consulting an actuary.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
5 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 66
Summary:

Discusses corrections [to Movement in plants]. Has dispatched chapter nine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ralph Price Hardy
Date:
6 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 62
Summary:

Asks RPH [an actuary] to act on behalf of the Down Friendly Society whose members wish the rates of benefits to be raised.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ralph Price Hardy
Date:
[after 11 Aug 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 67v
Summary:

Forwards some tables on behalf of the Down Friendly Society and discusses the changes in benefits requested by the members.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ralph Price Hardy
Date:
11 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 63
Summary:

Discusses matters relating to the Down Friendly Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
11 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 67
Summary:

Dispatches a chapter [of Movement in plants] for FD to look over.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Wesley Judd
Date:
[15 Aug 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 9
Summary:

Invites him to lunch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
18 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 221.4: 246 (photocopy)
Summary:

WCW’s specimens are interesting, but CD thinks the slowness of the change might have been expected.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
23 [Aug 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 96
Summary:

Asks GHD to decipher a letter [in German] he has received with a book: The Bible in science.

Enjoyed his stay in Cambridge extremely.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Wesley Judd
Date:
25 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 10
Summary:

Explains how to reach Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ralph Price Hardy
Date:
7 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 64
Summary:

Thanks RPH for the trouble he has taken on behalf of the Down Friendly Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
10 Sept [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 162
Summary:

Writes about worm-castings; tells WED not to bother with samples from Beaulieu Abbey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Adolf Theodor Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Viëtor
Date:
16 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 194a
Summary:

Improvement in orthography would be national benefit, but cannot contribute to WV’s paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
Date:
21 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 143: 144
Summary:

Comments on WB’s paper ["Über Variabilitäts-Erscheinungen an den Blüthen von Primula elatior und eine Anwendung des biogenetischen Grundgesetzes", Bot. Ztg. 38 (1880): 577–80].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
Document type
Transcription available